Fiefdom (unit)

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Lehen , also Lehn, Lehne, Lane, Laneum, was a measure of area in mining . The size of a fiefdom depended on the regional size of the laugh ; depending on the size of the laugher, the following dimensions also changed.

The fief is 7 pools long and 7 pools wide. Two fiefs are one weir and two weirs are one measure . The fiefdom is already mentioned in the Iglauer Bergrecht of 1249. A treasure trove had a length of 7 fiefs in both Iglauer and Freiberg Bergrecht. In Freiberg Bergrecht A (around 1300), 7 further fiefs were awarded to the treasure trove. One fiefdom on each long side of the treasure trove for the margrave, the margravine, the marshal, the stewardess , the chamberlain, the citizens and the mountain master. In Iglauer Bergrecht the king's fief, the citizen's fief and the man's fief were awarded in the same way. These additional fiefs no longer existed in Freiberg Bergrecht B (around 1380). In the Saxon Mountain Regulations passed from 1466 , the fiefdom is only rarely mentioned as a measure of area. In the Bergordnung of 1536, the fiefdom is clearly mentioned for the last time as a measure of area: "His treasure trove including all fiefs and dimensions". In the other mountain regulations up to the Electoral Saxon Mountain Regulations of Elector Christian 1589, fiefs are only mentioned in the sense of the possession of a mine field. These mining regulations were valid until the law on shelf mining in Saxony was passed in 1851. In this law, the square figure is called the square measure.

  • 1 fiefdom = 7 square laughs = 49 square laughers
  • 2 fiefs = 1 weir = 98 square laughs
  • 4 fiefs = 1 measure = 196 square lights

Other meanings

Sometimes the term was also understood as the length of 7 laughs.

In the Ore Mountains the hooves were sometimes also called Lehn, z. B. as a parish lean , which measured 2 hooves. For example, the Lehn in Schöneck was about 14.85 hectares.

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 152
  • Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 163
  • Document book of the city of Freiberg in Saxony 2nd volume , in: Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae Regiae (overview page)
  • Heinrich Veith: German mountain dictionary with evidence . Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1871, p. 322 ff .
  • Mountain order of the Most Serene High Born Prince and Lord, Mr. Christian Herzogen zu Sachsen… Dresden 1589 ( digital-sammlungen.de [accessed on June 25, 2018]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Veith : German mountain dictionary with evidence . Korn, Breslau 1871 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Hans-Joachim von Alberti: Mass and weight . Historical and tabular representations from the beginning to the present. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957, DNB  450041034 , p. 281 .